samba - Mar 1998 - SAMBA digest 1623

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 "Jem Atahan" <jem@condor.com.au>
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> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:30:52 +0800
> From: "Jem Atahan" <jem@condor.com.au>
> To: <samba@samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Multiple simultaneous logins
> Message-ID: <01bd50a5$11419ae0$30e102cb@aaaaargh.condor.com.au>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am dealing with a samba-1.9.17p5 SPARC Solaris box, with its password
> server set to an NT4 PDC. Clients are Win3.11 through to NT4.0
> 
> I would like to limit users to a single simultaneous session, ie. logged on
> from one workstation at a time only.
> 
> I can't seem to see any way of doing this, short of maybe doing some
ugly
> jugling with pre/post exec and #including an invalid users file (or words
to
> this effect).
> 
> Am I missing something/has anyone done anything simmilar.
> 
> thanks...
> 
have you looked at the MAX CONNECTIONS option in smb.conf?


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> have you looked at the MAX CONNECTIONS option in smb.conf?
'max connections' doesn't solve this problem.  The 'max
connections'
parameter is actually not very useful-- it limits the number of
simultaneous connections from the _same_ client.  Its a frequently
misunderstoond option. 

In fact, as was pointed out, there is no simple way to solve this problem
in Samba as it currently exists.

 -john.